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This *especially* applies to textualists of your own writing if you’ve written enough that that can be a thing.
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The trick to counterprogram textualists is to avoid not logic, but aesthetics. The best raw material for textualists is a sparse skeleton of closed, axiomatized ideas with a skin of apophenia fodder, all pulled together with a consistent emotional mood and sensory aesthetic.
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Textualist traditions are basically fandoms of a core set of texts with a cloud of hemeneutically bound commentary around it. Vulnerable minds lock on to the cognitive ease of navigating that body. It’s low-friction thoughtspace with striating laid out.
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Lock-on as in missiles that lock on to heat signatures. Except here it is lower-than-reality entropy signature so cool signatures. An escaped reality. Textualists are cold-seeking missiles. Throwing these off your tail requires missile avoidance maneuvering.
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